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A very short promo appeared after today's episode of TBS/MBS' "Toward to the Terra" announcing a new Gundam series. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Double O) is set to air at 6pm on Oct 2007. The official site is up providing a streaming promo.

Sotsu, the original sponsor of the first Mobile Suit Gundam robotic mecha series, published a press release today with the names of the main character and staffers on this October's Mobile Suit Gundam 00 televsion series in Japan. The series will be the first Gundam television project in high-definition.

As previously announced, the story of the 12th Gundam animated series takes place 300 years from now in 2307 AD on Earth. The main lead, Setsuna F. Seiei, pilots a mobile suit named Gundam Exia for a mysterious private military organization (Solestal Being). He fights to eradicate the nonstop wars that plague the entire world.

The press release confirms that Fullmetal Alchemist's Seiji Mizushima will be directing Sunrise on the animation. Series script supervisor Yōsuke Kuroda (Honey and Clover, Hellsing video series) will oversee the writing. Loveless and Earthian manga creator Yun Kouga is designing the original characters, which Basilisk's Michinori Chiba will then adapt for animation.

Kunio Okawara will contribute to the mechanical designs as he has for almost every Gundam television series since the first one, and he is joined by Kanetake Ebikawa (Full Metal Panic!, Vandread) and Takayuki Yanase (Toward the Terra… television series, Zegapain). Hitoshi Fukuchi (Blue Gender, Double Fake: Under the Gundam manga) and Kenji Teraoka (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Great Dangaioh) will contribute conceptual mechanical designs, and Seiichi Nakatani (Planetes) will adapt the designs for animation.

Ugh, not another bunch of holier-than-thou militant pacifists like Lacus and co. But since they start with that concept, unlike GS, probably they will develop into something else by the end of the series.

The Narrator for the promo is Tohru Furuya. He voices Amuro Rei in the original Gundam series.

If he's actually part of the cast I don't even know what I will do other than stifling back girlish shrieks of sheer joy. I think I've just rediscovered my inner fanboy again. .

No, until there's an announcement I'm going to guess Tohru is there because...well he's Amuro Rei. He seems almost retired now anyway. I can see him potentially hosting a special the week before the series airs though.